Hi Brett, Currently, Fabric's operations like run() and sudo() just look at env.host_string to determine which connection to use (and these are cached.)
So to force a new connection as a different user, simply set env.host_string to us...@current_host:current_port, and subsequent calls to operations will use that new connection. (Eventually the other env vars will be more intelligently used -- right now they're used for defaults or are effectively read-only.) A one-time overwrite of that setting will make the switch for the rest of the session/script; or you can use the context manager to effect the change only for a single block of code, e.g.: @hosts('us...@myhost') def foo(): # Connecting as userA run('something') sudo('something else') with settings(host_string='us...@myhost'): # Connecting as userB run('something as user B') # Connecting as userA again run('yet another something') For more details on how host connections work, see the 'Usage docs' section of docs.fabfile.org. Best, Jeff On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 6:22 AM, Brett Haydon <brett.hay...@unswpress.com.au> wrote: > I am trying to switch ssh users from A to B and then remove user A on > Ubuntu, but it always says that account A is in use. > I don't seem to be able to explicitly log the user out. > Is there a way to effectively do this? > > Brett H > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Fab-user mailing list > Fab-user@nongnu.org > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fab-user > > -- Jeff Forcier Unix sysadmin; Python/Ruby developer http://bitprophet.org _______________________________________________ Fab-user mailing list Fab-user@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fab-user